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For God's sake, I just created the article! Let me add some substance. Brooklyn Nellie (Nricardo) 04:01, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)
<removed stale inuse tag> xaosflux Talk/ CVU 05:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
This article needs some serious work to make it encyclopedic. "The Four Basic Guilt Groups"? -- Misterwindupbird 10:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Would it be POV to mention that this comic is commonly considered to be the worst nationally syndicated comic ever? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.65.133.76 ( talk • contribs) 21:29, 31 December 2005
I object to the recent reversion. I feel that the additions I made were a more factually accurate portrayal of the Cathy-verse (that is, the Cathy-Universe). User Nricardo is illegitimately substituting his own bias when he callously overrules what he so flippantly refers to as "vandalism". You my good sir have vandalized the truth with your lies and I, and, I am certain, Cathy Guisewhite herself, will not stand for such capricious and arbitrary behavior on an institution of democratic academia like Wikipedia. Listen to your concience for once and let the truth set you free. 72.181.35.42 06:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Carl "Cathy" Winslow
I added a note about Cathy's boss at one point sexually harassing her. This is in line with other notes about major characters. Please do NOT take this out without justifying why it should not be included. It provides information on Cathy's relationship with her boss and views on men in general. 4.142.123.225 07:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC)eric
I also removed the part about the reader's feeling that Cathy getting married was a breath of fresh air. This is a POV, many like myself feel it was the opposite. Unless you have a site for that like a poll. 4.142.123.225 07:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)eric
"Bill Andrews — Cathy's rare father. Helpless bystander to Cathy's Mom" but then we hear that the mother is "an equal in her marriage to Cathy's Dad". Contradictory. Which is true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.85.241 ( talk • contribs) 2:35, 2 April 2007
How about adding a picture? ThumbFinger ( talk) 20:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
This article needs the B-Class checklist filled in to remain a B-Class article for the Comics WikiProject. If the checklist is not filled in by 7th August this article will be re-assessed as C-Class. The checklist should be filled out referencing the guidance given at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria. For further details please contact the Comics WikiProject. Comics-awb ( talk) 16:02, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
How can the character of Zachary be aging slowly if his parent-characters met in an online chat? That's hardly been possible for long enough for Zachary to be a teen already (I mean, conceivable but unlikely in terms of the extensiveness of online chat to be sufficient to appear in a comic strip with the expectation people would know what it was). Obviously, other characters must age slowly but that one clearly ages either normally or rapidly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.176.103 ( talk) 07:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me the list of books for the Cathy Comic Strips stops at 2000. Is this correct? Did the publisher just stop publishing books? Or is the list incomplete? 99.53.169.153 ( talk) 08:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)Theribold
I seem to remember that Cathy was a mascot for Weight Watchers possibly in the early 90s. 76.214.41.110 ( talk) 05:28, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I love the drawing style...it's so simple and uncomplicated...Is there a name for this in cartoon tech terms??? Mt grandchildren draw in this fashion...and they have no formal training...what is it???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.188.98.226 ( talk) 23:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Found this article heavily vandalized, could someone check info and correct? CFLeon ( talk) 00:50, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: rough consensus to move. Andrewa ( talk) 06:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Cathy (comic strip) → Cathy — The comic strip appears to be the only topic likely to be referred to as just "Cathy." Every other entry on the disambiguation page currently located at Cathy is a person or character, such as Cathy Keenan or Cathy Lane, who would not likely be referred to by given name only. 63.104.174.146 ( talk) 18:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move, after over 2 weeks and a relisting. Cúchullain t/ c 15:51, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
– The comic strip is not what I (and IMO nearly everyone else) expect to find when I type "Cathy". Clarityfiend ( talk) 20:26, 20 July 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. — Newslinger talk 14:44, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
of course this has more page views. That's because it's inappropriately at the main article nameI don't think this argument really stands up to scrutiny. This page gets 20x the views of Cathy (given name). Even if every reader of the name article had to go through the comic article to get there (which is very generous - generally most article visits are via clicking a direct link, rather than searching), how do you account for the other 95 out of 100 readers of the comic article? Even if half the readers seeking information about the name give up when they hit this article, and fail to see the hatnote link, it doesn't come close to making up the massive disparity. Colin M ( talk) 20:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
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Cathy article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
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A fact from Cathy appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 25 March 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:
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This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||
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For God's sake, I just created the article! Let me add some substance. Brooklyn Nellie (Nricardo) 04:01, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)
<removed stale inuse tag> xaosflux Talk/ CVU 05:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
This article needs some serious work to make it encyclopedic. "The Four Basic Guilt Groups"? -- Misterwindupbird 10:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Would it be POV to mention that this comic is commonly considered to be the worst nationally syndicated comic ever? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.65.133.76 ( talk • contribs) 21:29, 31 December 2005
I object to the recent reversion. I feel that the additions I made were a more factually accurate portrayal of the Cathy-verse (that is, the Cathy-Universe). User Nricardo is illegitimately substituting his own bias when he callously overrules what he so flippantly refers to as "vandalism". You my good sir have vandalized the truth with your lies and I, and, I am certain, Cathy Guisewhite herself, will not stand for such capricious and arbitrary behavior on an institution of democratic academia like Wikipedia. Listen to your concience for once and let the truth set you free. 72.181.35.42 06:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Carl "Cathy" Winslow
I added a note about Cathy's boss at one point sexually harassing her. This is in line with other notes about major characters. Please do NOT take this out without justifying why it should not be included. It provides information on Cathy's relationship with her boss and views on men in general. 4.142.123.225 07:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC)eric
I also removed the part about the reader's feeling that Cathy getting married was a breath of fresh air. This is a POV, many like myself feel it was the opposite. Unless you have a site for that like a poll. 4.142.123.225 07:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)eric
"Bill Andrews — Cathy's rare father. Helpless bystander to Cathy's Mom" but then we hear that the mother is "an equal in her marriage to Cathy's Dad". Contradictory. Which is true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.85.241 ( talk • contribs) 2:35, 2 April 2007
How about adding a picture? ThumbFinger ( talk) 20:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
This article needs the B-Class checklist filled in to remain a B-Class article for the Comics WikiProject. If the checklist is not filled in by 7th August this article will be re-assessed as C-Class. The checklist should be filled out referencing the guidance given at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria. For further details please contact the Comics WikiProject. Comics-awb ( talk) 16:02, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
How can the character of Zachary be aging slowly if his parent-characters met in an online chat? That's hardly been possible for long enough for Zachary to be a teen already (I mean, conceivable but unlikely in terms of the extensiveness of online chat to be sufficient to appear in a comic strip with the expectation people would know what it was). Obviously, other characters must age slowly but that one clearly ages either normally or rapidly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.176.103 ( talk) 07:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me the list of books for the Cathy Comic Strips stops at 2000. Is this correct? Did the publisher just stop publishing books? Or is the list incomplete? 99.53.169.153 ( talk) 08:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)Theribold
I seem to remember that Cathy was a mascot for Weight Watchers possibly in the early 90s. 76.214.41.110 ( talk) 05:28, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I love the drawing style...it's so simple and uncomplicated...Is there a name for this in cartoon tech terms??? Mt grandchildren draw in this fashion...and they have no formal training...what is it???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.188.98.226 ( talk) 23:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Found this article heavily vandalized, could someone check info and correct? CFLeon ( talk) 00:50, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: rough consensus to move. Andrewa ( talk) 06:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Cathy (comic strip) → Cathy — The comic strip appears to be the only topic likely to be referred to as just "Cathy." Every other entry on the disambiguation page currently located at Cathy is a person or character, such as Cathy Keenan or Cathy Lane, who would not likely be referred to by given name only. 63.104.174.146 ( talk) 18:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move, after over 2 weeks and a relisting. Cúchullain t/ c 15:51, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
– The comic strip is not what I (and IMO nearly everyone else) expect to find when I type "Cathy". Clarityfiend ( talk) 20:26, 20 July 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. — Newslinger talk 14:44, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
of course this has more page views. That's because it's inappropriately at the main article nameI don't think this argument really stands up to scrutiny. This page gets 20x the views of Cathy (given name). Even if every reader of the name article had to go through the comic article to get there (which is very generous - generally most article visits are via clicking a direct link, rather than searching), how do you account for the other 95 out of 100 readers of the comic article? Even if half the readers seeking information about the name give up when they hit this article, and fail to see the hatnote link, it doesn't come close to making up the massive disparity. Colin M ( talk) 20:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)